Guide Note

This page contains reviews of the movie Baby Mama, starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. The film was released on April 25, 2008. Overall, the movie received a rating of 56 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and 58 percent on Metacritic.

1. Release Date: April 25, 2008
2. Directed by: Michael McCullers
3. Produced by: Jill Messick, Lorne Michaels and John Goldwyn
4. Starring: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Sigourney Weaver, Greg Kinnear, Dax Shepard, Romany Malco, Steve Martin and Maura Tierney
5. MPAA Rating: PG-13
6. Run time: 96 minutes
7. Distributor: Universal Pictures

When career woman Kate (Tina Fey) learns she can't have children she hires a surrogate, and begins planning her future as a new mother. When surrogate Angie (Amy Poehler) shows up at her doorstep with nowhere to go, Kate takes her in. Baby Mama marks the first big-screen pairing of Saturday Night Live buddies Fey and Poehler. SNL cast members Will Forte and Fred Armisen also have small roles in the movie.

1. "Fey is a delight to watch throughout. Able to convey Kate's intentions and feelings through simple looks and inflections, she never melodramatizes her situation; nor does her efficient, perfectionist side become overbearing." -Variety
2. "...serves up plenty of smart, knowing laughs early on, but by the time it hits the third act (or would that be trimester?), it barely crawls to the finish line."-The Hollywood Reporter
3. "It's genial but stale, and neither side-splittingly hilarious nor painfully unfunny."-ReelViews

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